Economic debate on the role of democracy for economic growth and on the role of human capital for democracy

hosted by the Wall Street Journal. The two debaters are established stars of the Economics academe, despite being relatively young still, Daron Acemoglu and respectively, Edward Glaeser (by the way, I bet on Ed Glaeser winning this edition’s (2007) John Bates Clark Medal– it is also his last chance, given the rules regarding the age of the recipient; Daron Acemoglu was the latest winner, two years ago).
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Our Bulgarian neighbours and their bus stations or How to make buses popular again, as transport means? :-)

‘We wanted to give the passengers something to take their minds off the cold and to pass the time while waiting for a bus“. Only ‘soft’ porn (duh…), but I guess it’d warm them up a bit anyway: Bulgarian invention.
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Remodeling Europe’s churches (with a focus on Transylvania’s old ‘fortress churches’)

This is a very, very interesting article from Newsweek International about the status of old churches throughout all of Europe (with pros and cons to maintaining or converting them etc). Inter alia, they do not forget mentioning Paradiso, one of the most famous clubs in Amsterdam (and certainly one of my favourites), obtained by transforming an old church.
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